Or you could install linux on them and donate them to 3rd world countries as mail/usenet uucp machines for individual villages. This is a _useful_ and humane thing to do! --jmg > Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 16:00:30 -0400 (EDT) > From: Captain Napalm <spc(a)armigeron.com> > To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"

> Subject: Re: Wirehead Update > > It was thus said that the Great Zane H. Healy once stated: > > > > >The other thing I need to do is find uses for the pile of 386 and

> > >boxes in my garage. It's 6 feet wide and 4 feet tall, neatly

> > Well, you could install Linux/Beowulf on them and get supercomputer > performance, then rent space on them. Beowulf is clustering software

> Linux developed at NASA and freely available. It's been used in

> other labs with great results (from what I hear). > > Check out http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/beowulf/ for more

> > > Of course the smartalick answer that came to mind was to turn them

> > get some cement, and build a shed useing them instead of bricks :^) > > Of course there's always that. > > -spc (Or set up a massively parallel web server and rent space out